Basic notions of "Linear Algebra" and "Information Theory". An
introductory course on "Digital Signal Processing", or "Digital Image
Processing" is also recommended.

Educational Goals

This course provides the fundamentals of multimedia information (audio,
image, image sequences) compression and description. It also introduces
to the solutions adopted within the ISO and ITU standardization bodies
(MPEG-x and H.26x families).

Content

Principles of signal representation and compression for communication
and information retrieval. Application to digital audio, image and video.